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The Referendum Was the Tip of the Iceberg: Why You Need to Care about the Teacher Shortage

April 13, 2024

By LaKeshia N. Myers During the April 2024 election, 103 school districts posed referendum questions to voters. Plainly put, school districts asked voters to pay more money to support schools; although they have already paid property taxes (the current funding mechanism for school funding). To date, only sixty percent of those referendums were successful. This […]

Popular Interests In This Article: LaKeshia N. Myers, Teacher Shortages

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Broadband Expansion Here in Wisconsin

March 23, 2024

By LaKeshia N. Myers Wisconsin’s students – from my hometown in Milwaukee to rural Northern Wisconsin – rely on fast, quality broadband internet to succeed. The internet is a portal that allows students to engage with the world around them. Students are exposed to new ideas, and are able to broaden their horizons, while sharing […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Broadband Internet, LaKeshia N. Myers

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Time’s Up: As the Legislative Session Ends Abruptly, There’s More Work to Be Done

March 16, 2024

By LaKeshia N. Myers Did you know the 2023-24 legislative session was over? In a mere fifteen months, the legislature has introduced, heard, and passed all of the bills for this biennium. How is this possible? Isn’t the session over in December 2024? Yes, it is, but for the Republican “powers that be,” campaign season […]

Popular Interests In This Article: LaKeshia N. Myers, Legislative Maps, Legislative Sessions

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Kidneys: Small But Mighty

March 9, 2024

By LaKeshia N. Myers Did you know March is National Kidney Month? Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a serious condition that affect more than thirty million adults in the United States. According to the National Kidney Foundation, Chronic kidney disease (CKD) means your kidneys are damaged and can’t filter blood the way they should. The […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Chronic Kidney Disease, End Stage Renal Disease, LaKeshia N. Myers, National Kidney Month

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Instead of Doing Right, They’d Rather See Us Gone

March 2, 2024

By LaKeshia N. Myers Mississippi has three public historically Black colleges—Alcorn State University (1871), Jackson State University (1877), and Mississippi Valley State University (1950). Each of them was created to educate the children of the formerly enslaved. Each serves a distinct geographical area of the state. Each of them is at risk of closure by […]

Popular Interests In This Article: LaKeshia N. Myers, Land Grant Colleges, Mississippi

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Biden-Harris Administration Invests in Wisconsin’s Future Generation While Trump Threatens to Destroy It

February 24, 2024

By LaKeshia N. Myers Last week, First Lady Jill Biden visited Wisconsin to celebrate an exciting new investment in Wisconsin’s workforce – and future. In January, the Biden-Harris administration announced the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction would receive a nearly $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Raise the Bar: Unlocking Career Success […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Biden-Harris Administration, Donald Trump, LaKeshia N. Myers

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Literacy: The Next Civil Rights Frontier

February 17, 2024

By LaKeshia N. Myers Wisconsin, we have a problem. A reading problem; according to Wisconsin Literacy, one in seven Wisconsin adults struggle with low literacy. Meaning they struggle to understand short, simple sentences and perform simple tasks. Adults with below basic literacy would have trouble filling out forms and following printed instructions (Wisconsin Literacy, 2024). […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Civil Rights, Illiteracy, LaKeshia N. Myers, Literacy

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Sisters in the Struggle: Paying Homage to Black Women Politicians

February 10, 2024

By LaKeshia N. Myers Happy Black History Month Wisconsin! Did you know there were only 383 Black women serving in state legislatures in the United States? That’s right, only 383 (according to the Center for American Women in Politics); or 5.2% of all state legislators. In Wisconsin’s one hundred seventy-six year history, we have only […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black History Month, Black Women in Politics, LaKeshia N. Myers

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If You Build It, They Will Teach: Eliminating Barriers to Teacher Education in Wisconsin

February 3, 2024

We all knew it was coming, but we didn’t prepare. We allowed the epidemic to get to crisis levels. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the problem. Act 10 didn’t help. Wisconsin, like every state in the union, is experiencing a massive shortage of licensed teachers. According to federal Title II data, in 2021 there were 5,400 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Foundations of Reading Test, LaKeshia N. Myers, Teacher Shortages

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No, Wisconsin Doesn’t Need a For-Profit Nursing School

January 20, 2024

Anyone who knows me, knows I have a penchant for learning. It has led me to earn three degrees: a bachelors, masters, and doctorate (I will graduate with a second masters degree in May, but who is counting). I have earned degrees from both nonprofit and for profit universities, have counseled students regarding college admissions, […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Arizona College of Nursing, LaKeshia N. Myers, Nursing Schools

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